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God bless the drunken soul who sympathised with me for ‘closely’ missing out on the Legend Games Media Award, before realising I wasn’t Kieron Gillen.
@ gmcallister (Gillen McAllister, Official Xbox 360 magazine) Friday, October 15th
I have no interest in being famous. Entertaining millions of people while still being able to shop in Sainsbury’s is fine by me.
@milessi (Miles Jacobson, Sports Interactive) Tuesday, October 12th
It’s somehow become more about the damned metagame these days, it seems. @therealcliffyb (Cliff Bleszinski – Epic Games) Wednesday, October 13th
I’m almost to the point where I’d like to make another Monkey Island, but Lucas gets to decide that, not me.
@grumpygamer (Ron Gilbert, co-creator of Monkey Island) Thursday, October 14th
I was happy and getting used to the title given to our coming game, but I decided to change it. Any game that I design, will be named by me. @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN (Hideo Kojima, Kojima
Productions) Tuesday, October 12th
Andy Gray is a smug tosser and Robert Earnshaw hateful; FIFA 11 is brilliantly realistic. @byronicman (Simon Byron, Premier PR)
Saturday, October 9th
@janedouglas and I are set to race around London today looting gold in Fable III Kingmaker. She’s going by bus, me by bike.
@guycocker (Guy Cocker, Gamespot) Tuesday, October 19th
The inaccessibility of modern games feels very clear when explaining to a newcomer the difference between RT and RB. @TimOfLegend (Tim Schafer, Double Fine)
Monday, October 18th
@uk_ie just held a great meeting with @lucianaberger new member of the shadow energy team. Looking forward to working together.
@Mikerawly (Michael Rawlinson, UKIE) Monday, October 11th
@NPDGroup might not be sharing, but I can tell you that Xbox 360 was the #1 selling console for the 4th month in a row! :-)
@aarongreenberg (Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft) Thursday, October 14th THE MOST POPULAR STORIES ON MCVUK.COM THIS WEEK
Our biggest stories for the week ending Tuesday, October 19th
1. Microsoft ‘working hard’ to meet Kinect demand
www.mcvuk.com/news/41315/Microsoft-working-hard-to-meet-Kinect-demand
2. Gran Turismo 5 delayed
www.mcvuk.com/news/41325/Gran-Turismo-5-delayed
3. Cell processor power Wii 2?
www.mcvuk.com/news/41286/Cell-processor-to-power-Wii-2
4. Vanquish price slashed ahead of release
www.mcvuk.com/news/41366/Vanquish-price-slashed-ahead-of-release
5. PC Zone heads roll call of winners at Games Media Awards
www.mcvuk.com/news/41349/PC-Zone-heads-roll-call-of-winners-at-Games-Media-Awards
6. GAME’s Kinect stock sold out
www.mcvuk.com/news/41306/GAMEs-Kinect-stock-sold-out
7. Medal of Honor targets PSJailbreak
www.mcvuk.com/news/41320/Medal-of-Honor-targets-PSJailbreak
8. HMV: Black Ops could be biggest game ever
www.mcvuk.com/news/41340/HMV-Black-Ops-could-be-biggest-game-ever
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9. Opinion: Tesco’s video games ambition
www.mcvuk.com/news/41358/OPINION-Tescos-video-games-ambition
10. CHIPS is back: The action plan
www.mcvuk.com/news/41328/CHIPS-is-back-The-action-plan
5 SECOND Read and
remember these stats so you can sound clever at the next Monday morning meeting
$500m
is the amount Microsoft is purportedly spending globally on marketing for Kinect, due next month
units of Sony’s PlayStation Move were sold across Europe in its first month
of the US games market is made up of pre-owned, digital sales, social network games, rentals and subscriptions
30m 1.5m 41%
total active accounts on digital download service Steam
is the number of people who have downloaded – for free – Angry Birdson Android in just two days
2m
units of Halo: Reachsold in the US during September. It’s the third title this generation to sell 3m+ in its first month – the other two being Halo 3and Modern Warfare 2
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